Belief Defect are an anonymous duo, with the only information being that they are established artists in their own rights. Decadent Yet Depraved sets out their manifesto - the world is deluding itself. Combine that target with hard hitting experimental electronics and you get the soundtrack to a collision course through...view item »

Vivid experimental electronics from the reliable Raster-Noton label. Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All-Night! is a set of four tracks produced on the fly just before Jesse Osborne-Lanthier played a live set, and it incorporates all kinds of tropes from different forms o...view item »

A major statement here from Grischa Lichtenberger: a linked set of three 12”s, released together by Raster Noton. Speilraum, Allgegenwart and Strahlung each plow an austere electronic furrow, ranging from melancholy droning to hard machine funk to twisting melodies. The 3 12”s are packaged ...view item »

Gloomy and dubby techno explorations from Jens Massel on Raster Norton. The tracks run so slow you'd imagine you have chosen the RPM yet this is the pace he works. Exploring the human psych through depth of sound, the pieces are enlivened by snatches of Michael Cramm's vocals which humanise the dislocated bloopery. ...view item »

Kyoka has recently had the pleasure of spending time working in Stockholm’s famed electroacoustic EMS studios, and that advanced approach towards sound is very much in evidence on this EP. Sh is a varied collection, with unpredictable shifts in tempo and sonic content occurring within tracks. 500 12” copies ...view item »

Never one to slouch in his comfort zone, Carsten Nicolai is always pushing himself as an artist and exploring new directions. This collaboration is a case in point where he collides with Einsterzunde Neubauten's Blixa Bargeld with astonishing results. I had read about this pairing but really couldn't imagine how it would sound and certainly didn...view item »

Grischa Lichtenberger presents the first in a series of EP’s that take the writings of the quintessentially 20th Century writer Walter Benjamin as inspiration. Not sure Benjamin would have gone for the tracks on Spielraum though: an inventive set of challengingly-chopped club deco...view item »

Hardcore murky techno producers usually stay a long way away from any kind of narrative, preferring direct sonic stimulation. But Kangding Ray’s new release is something of a concept album, about a character named Corey Arcane. Nevertheless, these productions are still as tight as anything Ray has...view item »

Grischa Lichtenberger releases La Demeure: Il Y A Peril En La Demeure, a record of fucked-up beat tracks and unusually-structured electronic business. The press release even invokes Kafka, so it has to be having at least one listen right? Released as a CD on the aesthetically firm Raster Nort...view item »

Alva Noto, he of the cold and abstract electronica (that is usually also super-banging), returns to his Xerrox series. As the title suggests, the concern here is with copying and re-copying, creating all-new material in the process. Unexpectedly, Xerrox Vol. 3 is grounded in Noto’s intima...view item »

Another fine delivery from the Raster Noton roster. The new senking record closing ice ends a two year silence in style, with nine dark, grooving tracks. The bass is thick and the subject matter is weighty and personal, but the song forms come through relatively clearly. Serious, high quality work from senking...view item »

Four totally different versions of Atom™‘s track Riding The Void here. First up is the original album version (the album being 2013’s HD+), followed by a technotastic reworking by Scuba. The EP is rounded out by Atom™ himself taking a second look, with a...view item »

‘HD+’ is a data DVD collection documenting the visual work of experimental pop musician Atom, aka Uwe Schmidt. As well as tracks from the ‘HD’ album, this video compilation also includes tracks from other Atom releases such as ‘Streuung’ as well as previously external releases such as ‘Praezision’....view item »

Gomila Park, the newest output function for Carl Michael von Hausswolff (who recently also released one hell of a singular record with Leslie Winer) and Martin Rössel, is unpredictable to say the least. This self-titled release on the Ununoctium se...view item »

A girl with a pretty voice and a thick Russian accent speaks ethereal poems over floating and remote synthesizer soundscapes. What more could you want to arm yourself against the cold of winter? Sleepstep’s Sonar Poems for my Sleepless Friends is here to help you through it, to guide you through sleeplessness with...view item »

Beepbeepboopbeepboop beepbeep. Who knew that innocent beeps and boops could reveal so much about the innate inability of man to define his fundamentally chaotic surroundings in exact understandable sentences? Well, Frank Bretschneider, for one. With thorough German Grundlichkeit he explores the limits of synthesizers an...view item »

Playful and digitally rich tracks with more than a tinge of darkness from Kyoka. IS (Is Superpowered) is a forward-moving album focussing on rhythmically varied snippets of Kyoka’s voice over a propulsive techno underbelly. Crackles and dusty circuit boards fizzle beneath for an eerily mechanical finish. Out on CD...view item »

Kangding Ray present twelve tracks of dark, shifting technoid sound. A little less cold and detached than much of the Raster-Norton roster, but satisfyingly moody nevertheless. Solens Arc is conceptually constructed, each trio of tracks constituting one ‘arc’ that explores a certain feel. You could get nice ...view item »

This new Atom TM 12" has three remixes followed by the album version of the song being remixed, so I'm going to start on track 4 and work my way backwards if that's alright with you.
The album track is nice, a slowly pulsating bit of Germanic techno with a male voice repeating the Kraftwerk-referencing t...view item »

Ever fancied working in a lonely industrial unit at night in a bleak part of town, alone only for the soothing roar of machines? Its possible that Emptyset have dreamed of such scenarios. Its as if spending such long hours alone with whirring machines would play tricks on your mind and the sound eventually forms some type of dance music. &...view item »

Every time I hear someone utter 'Raster Noton', this lads name almost never follows. It's a shame, because I've always reckoned he was a talent, and this album is no exception. It's possibly the smoothest techno/glitch album I've heard, as well as one of the cleanest. Essentially, what we have here are 8 variations of the same idea (from what I ...view item »

Atom TM is one of the ultimate marmite artists, he's dabbled in that many genres/sub-genres that there's bound to be a release you won't like at all. Sadly, this release is one of them for me. The single selections from it are great (Ich Bin Meine Machine and Riding The Void) but this album as a whole just doesn't cut it for me, it just grated o...view item »

This is totally my kind of techno. Built around a wicked metronome bassline, a warm slamming kick and some woozy panning/trippy ricocheting, this opener of ‘The Pentaki Slopes’ is called ‘North’ and is one of the most delectable pieces of crisp minimal astral techno I&r...view item »

I'm fairly sure this is the fifth collaboration between Carsten Nicolai and Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuchi Sakamoto. All previous releases have been sublime and as expected this really is no different. What's so lush about their pairing is how they just compliment each other's sound perfectly. Sakamoto's keys are often pure but sometimes slight...view item »

Ooh, this record's pretty hard to pin down. I like that about it. I don't know a lot about Robert Lippok but here he seems to be creating some kind of hybrid take on downtempo early '90s techno, keeping it glacial and minimal for the most part. The beats are a little bit disjointed but ne...view item »

Clicks, cuts, more clicks and cuts. Cold, rhythmic beats fizzing away indefinitely. At the risk of sounding like Mike Love, its all about melody for me and here we have none whatsoever. The most tuneful thing you are going to get is a one note fizz. So, not one for my stereo but that doesn't mean that its not impressive. There's...view item »

Oh shit yeah!!! I love the more straight up energetic techno side of Raster Noton. Don't get me wrong I do like a lot of the more arty stuff a whole lot too but the heavier stuff always gets me well excited. I totally adore the Kangding Ray 12" that came out last year and this follows very much in that sonic direction. The off kilter beats and i...view item »

What a meeting of minds this project is! Ten years since its inception with only a single CD available but numerous live performances. This is the esteemed duo of Carsten Nicoli (Alva Noto etc.) and Ryoji Ikeda... At ease. The bloke that lives next door to me is a nice chap but he's a copper so I don't want to get on his bad side... So anyway on...view item »

I'm quite fond of the Raster-Noton sound. These days that often stands more for sparse, metronomic techno with very minimal melodic phrases and a distinctive clinical sheen which, whilst not exactly forming floor destroying tunes as such, certainly offers up some delectable forms of hypnotic rhythym. This CD does not contain music to play in a c...view item »

I chucked this onto my ipod and went for a stroll to the local shops and then almost got hit by a car because the audio had me in a weird trance. I guess that's because the overall effect of Mark's sound can become disorientating at times and it is precisely that which I find enjoyable about his creations. Now you would be forgiven for thinking ...view item »

A superb 12" from David Letellier right here which heads straight for the cerebral cortex with 'Rise' which is a heavy almost industrial sounding take on the dubstep template. Working a mix of heavy drums and ghoulish processed vocals that retain the precision and pure electronic machinations of the Raster Noton aesthetic, in some ways similar t...view item »

Vinyl on Raster Noton doesn't come around all that often... Here I have the third 12 in the labels UnUn series and it's 'Ununtrium/RN-Rhythm-Variations' from Aoki Takamasa who used to have stuff out on Progressive form back in the early 2000's. It's a decent EP actually with its repetitive, slightly awkward hypnotic machine grooves. at first you ki...view item »

Don't know if this will help massage me back to full blistering health. A CD on the esteemed
Raster Noton imprint. Yes the uber minimal techno label has the 3rd collaboration out between
Alva Noto & the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto.
From what I can derive, this is sparse & beautiful classical piano
over sporadic pu...view item »

I'll begin with 'Revep' which is a rather scrumptious clear vinyl pressing of an EP that was previously available on CD on
Raster Noton from the immensely talented ALVA NOTO & RYUCHI SAKAMOTO. I'm sure there's gonna be loads of academic stuff written about how cutting edge this is so I wont bother going there. The deal here ...view item »

I've been looking forward to this one... Bretschneider's 'Rhythm' album still really does the business for me so this is an exciting time. 'Exp' is a double-disc set comprising a data CD with visual work and an audio CD of ermmm.... sound, music & audio. Just listening to the audio I can't help but feel I'm missing out on the full multi...view item »

Ant here with a mucky one for youse. We'll its not that mucky at all actually but now that I've got the attention of you pervs I'll proceed to tell you about The new COH and Cosey Fanni Tutti 'COH Plays Cosey' CD on Raster Noton. The ex- Throbbing Gristle lady gets here vocals arranged and processed by polish dude Ivan Pavlov. Little snippets are t...view item »

Another high concept, minimally packaged release from the dependable Raster Noton
imprint. The ideas for this set comprises Originals, Duplication,
Reproduction and Copying, you' ll have to read the sleeve notes to
understand the concept I'm not even gonna attempt to try & explain
my take on the philosophy of this partivula...view item »

I've selected the 'ecstatic' option but this release made me feel many things. After Carsten Nicolai's outstanding back catalogue a second Xerrox volume had a lot to live up to but, if anything, this is possibly one of the the finest things he's done yet. Where Vol.1 had undercurrents of emotion under a strict frame this is much looser (...view item »

SND have got a new CD out on Raster Noton that follows up that ultra limited triple vinyl from last year with some serious rhythmical experimentation in a similar vein. Using almost nothing but building blocks of pretty standard old-school Roland sounds they construct little minimalist exercises in repetition that demand your utmost attention - w...view item »

Open Close Open is an album of vintage Raster-Noton glitchfun electronics, produced by Robert Lippok in 2001. Field recordings, minidisc loops, fizzing digitals and Mahler are all blended together with a masterful hand. This attractively minimal clear vinyl reissue on raum is the first time this materia...view item »

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